Microsoft isn’t only a Windows company. It now shepherds several Linux distributions alongside its own operating systems. It’s important to remember that these aren’t general-purpose Linuxes like ...

Microsoft has expanded Azure Linux into Azure VM previews while pushing Azure Container Linux to general availability, ...

Linux-based container infrastructure is an emerging cloud technology based on fast and lightweight process virtualization. It provides its users an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux ...

Jack Wallen helps you take your first steps with Amazon Linux as a deployable container image. Did you know that Amazon Linux is available to use and can be deployed even outside of the AWS cloud ...

In a previous article, I looked at Flatcar, a lightweight, Linux-based 0S designed specifically for running containers. It emerged in 2018 as a successor to CoreOS Container Linux after Kinvolk forked ...

The creator of Rocky Linux has made the distribution available as a Docker image. Jack Wallen shows you how to get it, deploy it and modify it. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or ...

Fedora Hummingbird Linux is a fully container-based distribution built on rpm-ostree and bootc. In addition to a lot of AI ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...

When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern cloud applications. Microsoft needed a way ...

Part I of this Deep Dive on containers introduces the idea of kernel control groups, or cgroups, and the way you can isolate, limit and monitor selected userspace applications. Here, I dive a bit ...